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Lacey Jefferson's search for her missing sister quickly turns into a murder investigation, thrusting Lacey and her search-and-rescue K-9, Scarlett, into a killer's sights.

As November's autumnal hues fall over the Shakespearean hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, Jules and her team at Torte are putting the finishing touches on an authentic Elizabethan feast for the opening gala of a new museum exhibit at Southern Oregon University. The unveiling of the Bard's lost manuscript, Double Falsehood, will be celebrated, but just before the manuscript makes its appearance, rumors swirl that it's missing, and the security guard tasked with keeping the priceless artifact safe has been murdered.

In a deserted tenement in an occupied city, two dead bodies lie on a dusty floor as if they have fallen out of the air. One corpse is cut in half, the other is utterly unmarked. One is human, the other isn't. The city of Ambergris is half ruined, rotten, its population controlled by narcotics, internment camps, and acts of terror. But its new masters want this case closed, urgently. Detective John Finch has just one week to solve it or be sent to the camps.

In January 1923, twenty-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the barely clad body of the beautiful and bewitching interpretive dancer washed up on Torrey Pines beach. The investigation revealed a scandalous secret and, possibly, a powerful motive for murder. After a suspect was arrested and charged, an ambitious district attorney battled a high-profile LA private counsel in the most sensational trial in San Diego's history, which was followed avidly across the nation.

When P.I. Jessie Mercado is hired to find a missing partner in a consulting business that prepares people for prison, the suspect list is full of criminals, and she learns how far someone will go to keep his fate hidden.

Rachel Innes, a middle-aged spinster, has barely settled in at the country house she has rented for the summer when a series of bizarre and violent events threaten to perturb her normally unflappable nature. Before this spine-tingling tale ends, five connected deaths shatter the normally placid atmosphere of the vacation retreat.

Hannah Elias is one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900's, but an unsolved murder reveals her real identity and thousands accuse her of stealing her fortune from whites.

At Buckingham Palace, the autumn of 2016 presages uncertain times. Yet the fallout from Brexit and a tumultuous US election prove to be the least of Queen Elizabeth II's worries when a staff member is found dead.

The Home Group is a glamorous collection of celebrity members' clubs dotted across the globe, where the rich and famous can party hard and then crash out in its five-star suites, far from the prying eyes of fans and the media. The most spectacular of all is Island Home--a closely-guarded, ultraluxurious resort, just off the English coast--and its three-day launch party is easily the most coveted A-list invite of the decade. But behind the scenes, tensions are at the breaking point.

When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found, her half-sister Lena Scott becomes determined to find justice, even if it means untangling her family's darkest secrets, or ending up dead herself.